Karen L. Willoughby

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (BP) – Two Lao groups that joined in 2019 gathered recently to celebrate their growing unity.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (BP) – The Hmong International Freedom Festival, one of the largest gatherings in the world of the formerly agrarian people with roots in Laos, Vietnam and Thailand, takes place the weekend before the Fourth of July. And thanks to a strong Southern Baptist Hmong presence at this year’s festival, dozens of attendees responded to the Gospel

ATLANTA, Georgia – “Let us be the godly generation,” preached the Vietnamese and English Ministry pastors of Vietnamese Faith Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas.

STATESBORO, Ga. (BP) – Desperate for nourishment, the 8-year-old boy, separated months earlier from his parents, searched the ground in 1979 for spent bullets and chewed on the gunpowder inside for what nourishment there might be, before spitting out the wad like chewed tobacco.

The stately hymn in 2-2 time is a prayer for the safety and courage of Space Force crews. It opens with, “Watch over those who fly, through the great space beyond the earth ….”

RIGBY, Idaho – A defunct church plant’s ministry has become a mainstay of a now thriving church.

INDIANAPOLIS – Chinese Southern Baptists came from a dozen states to participate in the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting at the Indiana Convention Center.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Across from the CP Stage in the Exhibit Hall was the multi-station All Nations booth, where messengers and guests to the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting could find information and people to talk with about global missions across the United States.

INDIANAPOLIS – About 150 people attended the annual meeting of the Filipino Southern Baptist Fellowship of North America as part of the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting.

INDIANAPOLIS – Churches and members affiliated with Myanmar Baptist Churches USA, a Southern Baptist Fellowship, showed up in force during Crossover Indianapolis and at the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting.